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Exploring The Icy Moons of Jupiter. NASA's Europa Clipper and ESA's JUICE
ExoMars Parachute Test Fails, for the Second Time
The ExoMars 2020 mission hit another snag recently when a high-altitude parachute test resulted in damage again to one of the mission's parachute canopies.
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Carnival of Space #625
Why Build Big Rockets at All? It's Time for Orbital Refueling
An Astrophotographer Noticed a Chunk of Ice Orbiting Comet 67P in Rosetta's Photos
Neutron Star Suffers a "Glitch", Gives Astronomers a Glimpse Into How They Work
Rocket Lab is Going to try to Re-use its First Stage Booster, Catching it in Mid-air With a Helicopter
CEO Peter Beck of Rocket Lab recently announced that his company will begin retrieving the first stage of its Electron rocket with a helicopter.
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Milky Way's Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours
Spacecraft Gyroscopes And Reaction Wheels. You Can Never Have Enough
Hardy Tardigrades on Board Israel's Beresheet Lander Probably Survived the Crash
Astronomers Uncover Dozens of Previously Unknown Ancient and Massive Galaxies
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Tokyo used ALMA to view 39 previously-undiscovered ancient galaxies.
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Carnival of Space #624
A Monster Black Hole has been Found with 40 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun
NASA Tests Water Powered Spacecraft in Orbit
A Bunch of New Names for Pluto's Surface Features Were Just Approved
Traces of One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe Found Inside Another Star
One Year, Almost 1,000 Planetary Candidates. An Update On TESS
Dead Planets Around White Dwarfs Could Emit Radio Waves We Can Detect, Sending Out Signals for Billions of Years
A new study by a pair of astronomers has shown that planets orbiting white dwarfs will still be emitting radio waves for up to a billion years.
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The Story of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Part 3
There May be Thick Ice Deposits on the Moon and Mercury
According to a new analysis of LRO and MESSENGER data, the ice deposits on the Moon and Mercury could be even more plentiful than we thought.
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